WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Hi Whitestrat
I love the sound quality of your set up.
Excellent.
Dave
Thanks Mr Blues! I appreciate that.
Hi Whitestrat
I love the sound quality of your set up.
Excellent.
Dave
that was really helpful, especially since I kind of know what Im doing but still a noob. I really wish the sound clips would have worked, maybe its just my computer. Either way, thanks a lot for that info. Cant wait to record my next acoustic song now
Great Article...My wife recently bought me a Blue Bluebird for Valentines day so that I can record my Martin D1 (which coincidently she purchased for me 2 Valentines ago), and although the mic sounded great right out of the box and setting it right in front of the sound hole, by playing around with the placement of the mic as outlined in this article really made it shine. Now, if I can get my hands on two of these things, maybe I’ll be able to go for more stereo sound as suggested (even though recording right around the 12th fret facing the sound hole sounds amazing enough).
Cheers on a job well done!
Hi, thanks a lot for this writeup and 2 questions:
1) How exactly do you double track? Do you have a click track or do you just have the first take play back to your phones?
2) I'm going to record my frist stereo acoustic track. I have a Rode NT2A mic and an Audio Technika 4021, do you think it's a good idea to combine these two mics in the same setup that you used? Or do you really need a matched pair (of the Audio Technicas in my case?)?
But for this one, I took it one step further. I kept all four tracks. For both takes, I sent the body mic to the left and the neck to the right. But for take one, I left the body mic up, and brought the neck mic way down. So by itself this would sound very lopsided—to the left. For take two, I brought the body mic way down, and left the neck mic up. This one would sound lopsided the other way by itself. But together, you get two stereo guitars—one with the neck mic dominant on one side, and the the other with the body mic dominant on the other side.
Just got home and started messin with some of the techniques I read about here. Lovin it. I think I got farther in 45 minutes just now than I have with a week and a half of messin with my new equipment on my own. Bravo, sir.
Glad to hear it. And I should have time for a proper response to your previous post later tonight (or tomorrow--depending on what part of the world you're posting from!).